Diseases and diagnoses
Subtitle: the second age of biology
By: Sander L. Gilman.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781412810494
Subjects: Social medicine; Disease -- ethnology; Attitude to Health -- ethnology; Cultural Characteristics; Disease -- history; Minority Health; Philosophy, Medical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race (again) and medicine (again) : the Jews and alcoholism; title: What is the color of the gonorrhea ribbon? : stigma, sexual diseases, and popular culture in the twenty-first century; title: Nietzsche, Bizet, and Wagner : illness, health, and race in the nineteenth century; title: Are you just what you eat? : ritual slaughter and the politics of national identity; title: Imagining glamour in the age of aesthetic surgery; title: Sigmund Freud, electrotherapy, and the voice; title: Psychoanalysis and medicine in the time of Freud and Brill; title: Ethnicity and bilingualism in the world of health and illness.